Plans in train to ease congestion on Mash route

From left: National Allied Arts Coordinator Desiree Wyles-Ogle, Dr Frank Anthony and Lennox Canterbury

Plans for Mashramani 2013 include less congestion on the parade route, a situation which has been a huge bugbear perhaps for as long as there has been a Mashramani Float Parade.

Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Lennox Canterbury of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Mash Secretariat, said the police have promised to deploy officers along Church and Irving streets—the parade route—which are normally congested by spectators. Noting that this puts a strain on revellers, who have to sometimes stop at points,